Clothing-ticket



J. A. KELLER.

CLOTHING TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED 050. Is. 1918.

Patnted July 6, 1920.

JOHN ALWYN' KELLER, OF BAY SHORE, NEW YORK.

CLOTHING-TICKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 1a, 1918. Serial no. 267,303.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that 1, JOHN ALwYN KELLER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Bay Shore, in the county of Suffolk, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothing-Tickets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothing tickets of that type which is employed in attached connection with garments to identify the lot number, size, sales price, etc., thereof.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and improved clothing ticket which can be readily and conveniently attached to and detached from the garment, which will effect economy in manufacture and use, and which will afford advantages in point of effectiveness, convenience, and general efficiency.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a face View showing the improved clothing ticket in attached connection with the garment.

Fig. 2 is a face view of the ticket as produced and ready for use.

Fig. 3 is a rear View of the ticket as shown in Fig. 2, with the hanger? of the garment shown in its connection with the ticket.

Fig. 4; is a detail cross-section on the line -rw, Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a face View of a clothing ticket according to my invention, illustrating a modified construction.

Fig. 6 is a face View corresponding to Fig. 5 and illustrating a further modification in construction.

Corresponding parts in all the figures are denoted by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the body of the clothing ticket, which is formed as usual of card-board or other suitable pliable paper or textile material and is of desired size, and upon the face of said pliable body is usually printed suitable matter to indicate the lot number, size, sales price, or other desired data relating to the manufactured garment or article of clothing to which the ticket is attached.

My improved clothing ticket is designed to be attached to and detached from the hanger of the garment, such as the hanger at the inside of the collar of a coat, as indicated at 2, without sewing or other permanent means of attachment which entail additional labor and increased expense. The improved ticket can thus be attached to the garment, and retain its engagement there with, with convenience and facility, and can be as readily detached therefrom, and can be re-used if desired.

In carrying out my invention and improvements, each opposite side edge of the body of the ticket is provided with a slit, 3. forming an open cutaway channel exte at ing inwardly a short distance and referably inclined upwardly. Said side slits 3-3 terminate at their inner ends in an enlarged perforation, 4, which in the preferred construction extends above and below the terminal end of the slit and is of circular or curved contour at its top and bottom portions, as at 5-5, to form pointed terminals at the inner ends of the top and bottom edges of the slit 3, as at -(S, which pointed ends are projective inwardly with relation to the widthof the body perfora tion 4. In this construction, in the operation of engaging the ticket with the garment-hanger strip 2, the slit 3 forms a guide channel for the passage of the hanger to the body perforation 4, which latter forms a seat for the hanger and preferably corresponds approximately in'its vertical extent to the width of the hanger strip, and the projective pointed terminals 6-6 bite into or engage with the fabric of .the hanger and are thus operative substantially as a lock to hold the ticket more firmly in its attached position and support upon the hanger. The curved or rounded contour of the body perforations 4, in contradistinction to an angular corner, obviates liability of tearing of the paper or pliable material forming the body 1 of the ticket in connection with its attachment to or detachment from the garment hanger or in the handling of the garment. The preferred upward inclination of the side slits 3-4-3 precludes liability of accidental detachment of the ticket from its connection with Patented July 6, 1920. N

the hanger under conditions of handling in which the ticket might be pulled downangle to the tion preferably consists of a cut or slit ex tending on the transverse plane of the body 1, as at 7, and intersected by additional cuts or slits extending on the vertical plane of the body, as at 8-8, forming a substa tiallyrectangular flap, 9, at the central por ion of the ticket intermediate of the body perf0ra-.

tions 4:4: and in line with the latter, under which fiao the garment-hanger 2 will pass and be locked in the operation of inserting the ticket in connection with and in supported engagement upon the hanger, this engagement of the hanger with the flap 9 being permitted by p- I In the modified construction ilustrated in Fig. 5, the intermediate retention means, as constituted by the flap 9, is omitted, this not being-essential under some conditions of use, and the garments hanger will under this modified construction extend across the face of the clothing ticket between the body perforations 47-4. 7 I

A further modified construction of the clothing ticket, according to my invention, is illustrated in Fig. 6, in which the body erforations H at the inner terminal ends of the edge slits 3--3 do not extend both above and below the terminal end of the slit but extend only above said slit end, this construction being under some circumstances of use sufiicient for secure engagement of the ticket with some types of garment-hangers and the effective retention of the ticket in attached connection therewith.

'It will be understood that the hanger as herein referred to may be the loop or strap which is ordinarily provided at the inside of the collar of a coat'or at the rear of the waistband of trousers, or may be any other equivalent loop or strap or strip usually or conveniently carried by a garment. I

The operation and advantages of my improved clothing ticket will be readily understood by those familiar with the art to which the invention appertains. To attach ,the ticket in its operative connection with the arment, it is simply necessary to slip the pliable body into engagement with and upon the garment-hanger, in which operation the latter passes through the edge channel slits to its seat in the body perforations, when the relative position is such that the hanger extends entirely across the body of the ticket and securely retains the same in attached and supported connection with the garment. The ticket may be as readily removed from its attached connection, by manipulation of its pliable body to withdraw the same fromconnection with the garment-hanger. The improved construction, as hereinbefore described, provides a secure engagement with the fabric of the garment-hanger and prethe open lower edge of the 7 eludes any liability of the detachment of the ticket from the hanger under any ordinary conditions of pliability in the handling of the garment. My invention thus provides a readily attachable and detachable clothing ticket which can be conveniently and quickly employed without sewing or other permanent means of attachment to the garment.

I do not desire to be understood as limiting myself to the details of construction as herein shown and described, as it is manifest that variations and modifications therein may be resorted to, in the adaptation of my invention to varying conditions of use, without departing'from the spirit and scope of the invention and improvements. therefore reserve the right to all such variations and modifications as properly fall within the scope of my invention and the terms of the following claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A clothing ticket having at its opposite side edges lateral slits forming an open channel extending from the edge and terminating in a body perforation which is enlarged at an angle to the slit. I

2. A clothing ticket having'at its opposite sidge edges lateral slits forming an open channel extending from the edge and terminating in a body perforation which is enlarged at an angle to the slit and is of circular or curved contour.

3. A clothing ticket having at its opposite sideedges lateral slits forming an open channel extending from the edge and terminating in a body perforation which is enlarged at an angle to the slit and forms a pointed terminal at the edge of the slit.

4. A clothing ticket having at its opposite side edges lateral slits forming an open channel extending from'the edge and terminating in a body perforation, and having means; intermediate of said body perforations for insertion upon and engagement with the hanger strip of a garment.

5. A clothing ticket having at its opposite side edges lateral slits forming an open channel extending from the edge and terminating in a body perforation, and having an open-ended flap intermediate of said body perforations.

6. A clothing ticket having at its opposite side edges lateral slitsforming an open channel extending from the edge and terminating in a body perforation extending above and below the terminal end of the 

